Your competitors aren't building perfect code either. If you spend 6 months building the theoretically perfect architecture, they'll ship something "good enough" in 2 months and eat your lunch. You'll have beautiful code that nobody uses. Tech debt is the cost of moving fast enough to win. The biggest risk in software isn't technical debt-it's being irrelevant. Markets move fast. User needs evolve. Competitors iterate. While you're refactoring for the third time to achieve "clean architecture," your competitor is talking to users, learning what actually matters, and shipping features that solve real problems.
It's shorthand for letting AI generate code from simple language prompts instead of writing it manually. In many ways, it's great. AI has lowered the barrier to entry for coding, and that's pulled in a wave of hobbyists, designers, and side-project tinkerers who might never have touched a codebase before. Tools like Warp, Cursor, and Claude Code uplevel even professional developers, making it possible to ship something working in hours instead of weeks.
Blender, for those who don't know, is an open-source 3D modeling and animation tool currently sitting near the tipy top of its category. It's used by world-class VFX studios all over the world and, as of 2020, had over 14 million downloads, a number that continues to grow year over year. It's an incredibly successful project and believe it or not you don't have to pay the low-price of $12.99 a month to get a subscription to it.
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As the future success of datacentres becomes increasingly dependent on the performance of networking components that can process massive amounts of data with minimal latency and power consumption, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced a new version of its dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) transponder system, claiming to be the first cloud provider to successfully develop and deploy in-house such technology for both metro and long-haul applications at scale. AWS network infrastructure operates on two scales.
Some software developers complain that they're being required to use AI tools to the detriment of code quality and their own skills. A full-stack developer based in India, who identified himself to The Register but asked not to be named, explained that the financial software company where he's worked for the past few months has made a concerted effort to force developers to use AI coding tools while downsizing development staff.
The most remarkable thing you might notice when coming to Clojure from Java is that it is homoiconic, which means the code is written in the form of the language's data structures. This practice, also known as code as data, results in very consistent syntax with a limited number of keywords and constructs. It also creates a meta-programming model using "syntax-aware" code templates (called macros).
Microsoft first introduced the free version of Copilot Chat into Microsoft 365 apps in September, and it's now improving how this chatbot works in Outlook. Copilot Chat will soon be able to view content across an entire Outlook inbox, including calendar entries and meetings. This will allow you to use Copilot to triage an inbox or schedule and prepare for meetings, all without a paid Microsoft 365 Copilot license. It goes far beyond the existing integration that's limited to just individual email threads.
Google today announced a new(ish) programmer's development environment called Antigravity. The company calls it "a new era in AI-assisted software development." And, from a first look I took at its functionality via this video, it well might be. At least for some things. Also: Google's Gemini 3 is finally here and it's smarter, faster, and free to access Some aspects of Antigravity are definitely astonishingly good. It has some features that I think can truly help move your agent-assisted programming forward in very productive ways.
Several premium Google Vids features are now open to everyone. You can edit photos, add voiceovers, and remove filler words. The features should make things easier for beginner editors. Google is unlocking some AI features in its popular video editing platform and letting anyone with a Gmail address test them out. Previously, these features were only available to paid users.
When I started my career, you could go to a three to six-month boot camp and get a job. That's kind of what I did. After high school, I attended a boot camp and then started a web-design firm with a friend. Then I studied computer science at Harvard and founded a startup with an MBA friend while I was there.
Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare says it is investigating an issue that caused outages for social media platform X, some multiplayer games and ChatGPT. Cloudflare said on its status page earlier Tuesday that it was aware of and investigating an issue that was impacting multiple customers. There were reports of widespread 500 errors as well as Cloudflare Dashboard and API failing. Cloudflare then provided an update that a recovery was underway, but reverted to messaging that indicate they are still investigating the cause of the issue.
Following our previous look at inodes, we know a typical Linux filesystem structure includes boot blocks, superblocks, inodes, and data blocks. This article focuses on the crucial role of the superblock, explaining what it is, why it's vital and what information it holds. Inode article for reference: Defining the Superblock As established, the superblock is created near the beginning of the partition (in Block Group 0) by tools like mkfs.ext4.
New in this release JDK 25 delivers sixteen enhancements that are significant enough to warrant their own JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP), including four preview features, one experimental feature, and one incubator feature. These features cover innovations to the Java language to the libraries (with two improvements specifically to security libraries), performance and runtime, and monitoring improvements. Language Innovation Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch 3rd Preview
He told InfoQ that the concept of "One Java, that runs on any platform" remains key and that while Java remains a great option for performant, scalable and maintainable applications for backend and cloud systems, there is no reason why Java developers should not be able to use the language and ecosystem they love and are skilled at to create mobile applications.
The first game from the development team is Prologue: Go Wayback, a single-player survival roguelike that tasks you with navigating worlds generated through machine-learning technology. It'll be available in early access starting November 20. Greene has stated in the past that he expects players to hate the game at first. The second planned game from the studio "aims to test limited multiplayer, maybe up to 100 versus 100 players," Greene told Eurogamer.
The survey found that 57 percent of respondents spent more than $1 million on migration projects in the previous year, and those efforts ran an average of 18 percent over budget. Beyond financial strain, nearly 70 percent of technology leaders reported increased developer burnout and declining morale following major migrations. Perhaps most concerning, 75 percent said that security integrations became harder to maintain after consolidation.
"Dave Plummer, a former Microsoft engineer, says his lean original has grown roughly 50 times in size. Rather than critique today's version, Plummer took to his Dave's Garage YouTube channel to offer a window into Task Manager's scrappy origins, including the thought process behind its development, and his unfortunate decision to include his home phone number in the source code."
The economics of the software development business have always been kind of weird. Some things with software scale spectacularly, and some things scale very poorly. Pricing is always a challenge; it's hard to know when it is right. Even what, exactly, is being sold has always puzzled the best thinkers in the software business. And of course, open-source software throws a monkey wrench into the whole works.
VLC started out in 1996 as a student project at ECP - École Centrale Paris (now merged into CentraleSupélec). Libération has some of the early history. This includes some gems: French telco Bouygues offered to sponsor faster site-to-site links, if the students worked out a way to stream Télévision Française 1 over them. The students, predictably, also wanted to play Doom over the new links.
